Industrial Design in Vietnam

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]

1. General provisions on renewal of validity of protection titles Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Request for renewal of...

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows: 1. Procedure  Protection criteria: A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions: Being novel Being of an inventive...

Before the NOIP issues a notice of its refusal to grant a protection title or a decision on the grant of a protection title[...]

Amendment and supplementation of Industrial design applications are carried out as follows:

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

SBLaw would like to provide the guideline for industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

Under Vietnam IP Law, Industrial design means the outward appearance of a product embodied in three dimensional configuration, lines, colours or a combination of such elements

SBLAW would like to introduce some information about industrial Design Renew in Vietnam as follows:

If client would like to file an industrial design in Vietnam, SBLaw would like to provide our guidance as follows:

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

Before the NOIP issues any of notices specified at Point 17.1.a of this Circular, an applicant may request the NOIP to record the transfer of his/her application to another person.